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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
BIunderS in Politics.

All London laughed one morning at
the appearance in the Times of speech
of the Irish orator, Richard l.. Shiel,
which he meant to have delivered the
evening before at political meeting. An
accident prevented the orator from at
tending the meeting, but, says the
Youths Companion, as he failed to
notify the editor of the fact, the
speech was published, with interpretations
of applause" hearty applause" "much
merrlment," and 'great laughter" Shiel
had furnished the Times with copy of
the speech several days before the meet
ing, and had himself corrected the proof
and inserted the applause"
An accident not dissimilar befell Will
liam II. Seward, when he was q years of
age. His faoile pen was relied on by the
Adams party of western New York to
draft the addresses of their conventions.
In those days political conventions did
not whereas" or "resolve;" they sad
dressed" the citizens.
A member of congress was to be NOM
inaten In the Cayuga district, and the
Adams leaders had arranged, as they sup
posed, to have the choice fall upon an old
and popular citizen. Young Seward, tax
ing 1T for granted that the convention
would ratify the choice of the leaders,
wrote an address.
In it he described the candidate as
venerable citizen of Cayuga, who had
long dwelt in the county and was revered
for his honorable career aad many vir-
tues. Handing the manuscript to one of
the leaders, Mr.. Seward left home for
distant town to try case in court.
The convention met, got into snarl,
rejected the candidate selected for them,
and nominated young Seward himself.
Then, being in a hurry to adjourn, for it
was nfw late at night, they adopted the
address of without hearing it read, and
sent the record of their proceedings to
the weekly newspaper, with directions to
insert Stewards name in the address.
When the paper was published Seward
was surprised and mortified to find him
self presented to the voters of Cayuga
county as venerable citizen, whose long
and honorable career had begotten the
reverence of all classes. He vaulted out
of the ridiculous position by declining
the nomination.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
Things One Doesn't Like to. Hear.


''No, Mr.. Smith, but 1 will be a sister to
you"
"Good morning. 1 am introducing
work which should be in every library"
"Sorry dear boy, but I can't let you
have the amount, for I'm broke my
SELF
"Charles it is half past o'clock
Where have you been until this hour?"
''Mr. de Brown, your services will not be
required after S aturday next"
''You want to marry my daughter, Ell?
Well young man what are your expec-
tations?''
''Here is the milliner's bill, Algy-only
$75."
''I say, Jenkins, heard a good story
to-day, and L must tell it to you"
ooh, Alfred, what do you think? I re-
ceived a letter from dear mama this NOR
ming, and she's coming to spend a month
with u.s.
''When will you be ready to return that
SO, Robinson. This is the fifth time I've
asked you for it."
"If ye PLACE, sorr, Miss Heavyswen
toHld me to tell you she's not at home"
Sand filthy, dear brethern-'
'sYou are moderate drinker, en-? Now
my dear sir, let me direct your attention
to a few statistics"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
BENNINGTON MONUMENT
The Shaft That is to Commemorate the Scene of
the Battle of Bennington.

The Shaft That is to Commemorate the Scene OF
the Battle of Bennington.
The foundations Of the monument rest
directly upon limestone ledge and are
as immovable as if sunk into iron. The
foundation. which is Al feet square on
the rock and 81 feet at height of nine
feet, is of limestone taken from a local
quarry, and is laid in cement with cement
pointed joints outside. The shaft pro-
per is to be 301 feet high, and will be
bailt of Sandy Hill dolomite or magne-
sian limestone. The base measurement
is ~ feet and apex feet.
The outside Of the shaft will be built
with what is known as "headers and
stretchers." These are stones cut in
long blocks; the stretchers are laid length
wise and the headers with ends to the
outer wall, running through to the inside
The outer wall is thus laid for 26O feet
after which are both headers and stretch
ers. The inside walls will be left in the
natural state. The outside walls have
rough finish, the stone being left with a
rock or split face; at the right angle
corners of the shaft, where the corner
slides meet, and also at all windows and
other openings, the stone is finished in
quarter-in inch draft lines or arris. For
the outside the coarse ashlers and street
cheers are laid in random length. The
oncave Joints between the ashIars will
be filed with Portland cement and coarse
sand. These joints and the color of the
limestone rock give the column har-
monious finish. At the height of 200 feet
there is an entabliture eight feet high,
and fourteen feet above is another en-
abliture twelve feet high. These entabli-
tures encircle the shaft On the four
sides. They do not project from the
surface, but the blocks of stone constitu-
ting them, have hammered faces so as to
offer slight contrast TO the rough face
of the rest of The structure.
A few feet above the lower line of the
lower entabliture on each of the four
sides of the shaft there is an opening IL
feet by IA. In each of these openings
stands double row of plain columns,
four of the columns being flush with the
outer surface of the shaft and the others
behind them in the interior. These
columns are sixteen inches apart, and
across the front row on the inside are run
three inch brass rods. The back of col
umns is flush With the inside OF the shaft,
and visitors can pass between them, and
advancing up to the bronze railing, look
out upon the landscape. Sixteen feet
below these large openings each side has
a group of five narrow windows and there
are other windows still higher up. Near
the base are also two windows. On the
west side is a large oak door with bronze
grills and trimmings. Over the door is a
large Intel on which is to be carved head
of Gems. Stark, Warner, and Allen. The
floor of the interior is laid on the top of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
FARM NOTES.

As general thing the reports from the
clover fields sown last year are encourag-
ing, though far from being satisfactory.
We know that many patches of alsike
were sown last spring, because the sale
of the seed by Mr.. Anderson of Wiscon
sin and others was very large up here in
the Northwest. That it is doing well we
believe. But the question is how will it
get through next winter? Next spring
will tell us much more ON this subj ect
than we now know. Though theoretically
alsike may be pronounced well adapted
to this country from its abundance of
long sturdy tap roots and it's general har-
diness elsewhere, yet it must have the
test of several seasons in It's new sur
roundings.
The farmer who now goes ever his corn
aud pototo fields and destroys the weeds
that have grown after crops were laid by.
and that have perhaps thrown up flower
stalks that will soon ripen seeds, will save
himself great deal of work next season.
He will also save money by greater crops
of clean, marketable grain. The ground
contains enough of foul seeds without
allowing more to ripen.
If your work is well enough along to
admit of it, now, when the water is low
and the sloughs and ponds are dry, is
the time to sink in some convenient spot
in several fields of the farm a well for
furnishing stock water. Where water is
found now it can be depended upon for
any season that may come along. The
experience of thousands of farmers this
year in getting a supply of water tor the
farm animals teaches impressively the
importance of a provision of this kind.
The mere surface wells cannot be de-
pended upon. SIoughs and open ponds
are of no kind of use, for if they do
not fail altogether the water becomes
so foul as to be unhealthful, and
especially injurious to mich cows.
Our correspondents have recently
shown that area IN the Northwest
where artesian water can be obtain
ed at paratively small cost is large
one, and in all such regions these wells
are not only the best, for they are to be
depended upon in all seasons, but in the
long run they are far the cheapest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01

at US. | never thought there could be SO
much fire in an eye as there was in hers.
She stood there looking at US and we at
her, Tnen all at once we heard noise on
the roof. You bet we knew what it was,
too, and were about ready to give up
then. The two-year- olds, the cid bears
cubs, had got up on the dirt roof of the
cabin. Pretty soon they commenced
throwin' dirt, and in about two minutes
had got down to the poles that held the
dirt. We could look right up through
the poles where the dirt was clawed off
and see them. And wasn't they mad?
They would claw along lengthwise of the
poles and rake the bark off every clip,
and every minute we were expecting them
to get their claws between the poles and
then we would be gone. If they had
known enough to give one or two scrapes
sideways they could easily have scooped
off enough poles to let them down in.
What then? Well, the bears would have
had square meal, and I wouldn't be here
telling you about it. All the time they
were scraping away up there 1 stood with
the straw bed tick on the floor open and
lighted candle in my hand. As told
Jim, 1t was poor chance, but I'd rather
be burnd up than eaten up. The old bear
stayed right there at the window all the
time, watching US. 1t was too small for
her, or she'd have been in herself. After
a while they seemed to get tired, and,
after prowling around the cabin until we
were near frightened to death, they went
off [ measured the biggest ones tracks
in the snow next morning, and it was
fourteen inches long. 1t wasn't long be-
fore that cabin had a rifle in it, and you
don's catch me in a bear country again
with no protection but straw bed and
candle"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
THE DEADLY DUDE STICK.
A TerSe and Interesting Account Of the Evils
of Cigarette Smoking.

OF Cigarette Smoking.
Whether or not young Mr.. Knevals
died of smoking cigarettes, says the New
York Times, it is perfectly we'll known
to physicians that man may die from
carrying shat practice to an excess, aud
that excessive cigarette smoking does do
a great deal of harm. In the first place
people who smoke cigarettes do more
smoking than those who use cigars and
pipes. If man is going to leave his
Office to run across the street for a min
ute, or is walking to the corner to take a
horse car; he will not light cigar; he
knows it must be thrown away immea-
diately, and a sense of economy restraints
him. But if he is in the habit OF rolling
cigarettes, he may take Whit at any
time, and is pretty sure to be always do
ing 1t. The result is that when a non
smoker has the benefi t of some fresh air
in the lungs whenever he is out of doo~3,
the cigarette smoker takes in air charged
with nicotine.
Smokers of cigars and pipes do not, as
a rule, inhale smoke, but cigarette smok-
ers do. Why this should be, it is diff
ficult to say, but it is an acknowledged
fact that it is so. It is thus easy to see
why the results of cigarette smoking
should be SO baneful. The air in reach
ing the lungs goes through the wind pipe
and bronchial tubes. Between the wind
pipe and the lungs the bronchial tubes
keep dividing into two. This incessant
subdivision reduces them ultimately to
great fineness. In the lungs they are
scarcely wider than hair. At the end
of each bronchial tube there is what is
called pneumonia globule. 1t is in this
globule that the air and blood meet; it is
here that the blood becomes "aerated" or
Oxygenized. In the case of men who in
hale the smoke of cigarettes, these glob-
ules instead of receiveing fresh air, re-
ceive air charged with nicotine. In
order to know the extent to which the
lungs receive the poisoned air it is only
necessary to remember that the area of
these pneumonia globules is some 1900
square feet.
There is popular notion that paper
wrappings of cigarettes do the mischief.
The paper perhaps does burn the mouth.
The wrappers of some Turkish cigarettes
are impregnated with opium, and these,
of course, do harm; but that is not the
fault of the cigarette. The trouble with
cigarettes is that people will smoke
cigarettes at times when they will not
smoke cigars, and that cigarette smokers
thus use more tobacco than other people
and that cigarette smokers inhaIe tobac-
co and take into the lungs air charged
with nicotine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
The Worlds Wheat Crop.

AyR. Dodge, statistican of the Agricul-
tu& ~ Department, in an article entitled
81" ducts and Prices of Wheat" which
will lie published with the departments
August crop reports, says: The official
record of imports of wheat into the
United Kingdom for the first half of the
present year shows large increase in
the proportion furnished by the United
States, 6S per cent. against 81 per cent
in the first six months of 1886 and 1885.
Counting -four as wheat, the proportion
is 1876 per cent. against CO.'S in similar
period of 1886, and 60.6 in 1885. There
is great reduction in receipts from
Russia; also from India of 20 per cent.
as compared with the first half of last
year, and decrease from Australia. The
quantities of wheat imported from Jan
uary to June inclusive, with value and
average price expressed in the measures
of this country, are as follows:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
THE TEACHERS LOT.

IT'S now the boy in school
Doth hate the teachers rule,
And think of little else tnan outdoor fun;
And there is cause tp fear
From all that one can hear,
The teachers lot is not a happy one.
When in the afternoon,
The giddy circus tune
Is heard. and all the scholars want to run;
When cal!iope doth sound,
And monkey go around,
The teachers lotisnot happy one.
When in distant field
Boys see the batters WELD
Their little bats and for the bases run;
And when they fret and pout
And wish that school were out,
The teachers lots a most unhappy one.
And when they think how fine
Twould be with hook and line,
To sit and fish beneath the nice warm sun;
Full well do | know then,
And say it now again,
They make the teachers lot no happy ono.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01

the foundation structure and is made of
North River tagging. A stairway is laid
in successive flights up three sides of the
shaft, and then on the fourth side is a
platform, the same arrangement being
repeated several times. The several
platforms are lighted by openings in the
wall on the south side. On the level of
the larger columned openings there is
the main outlook.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
Moses Nowhere.
New York Sun.

"You made me run half block for
this car, conductor" said an irate female
sand Eli report you"
eyes, MAN," said the conductor hum
bly,.
''What do you mean by carrying me
half block beyond my corner?" ex-
claimed an old man, "The company shall
hear of your stupidity"
eyes sir" said the conductor humbly.
Then he turned to passenger on the
platform and said:
"Bah! Talk about your Moses being a
meek man; he never run street carp
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
He Had a Scheme.
San Francisco Chronicle

''William!" said the old gentleman at
the breakfast table.
"Sirw
II am not pleased to see you so much
In the company of young Jobson. He is
dissipated young man and he CANDLES
l should prefer that you avoid his So
ciety."
''He CANDLES. father, I suppose. He
can afford to. He has just made $780,
900 in the wheat corner"
''Well-still- had better be care
full"
After little William rises from the
table.
''Williamr'
''Sir?"
''If Mr.. Jobson is disengaged this even
ing you. can bring him up to dinner. Per-
haps little good example may save him
and, William, you can just tell him
something about the new mining COM
pany am floating.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
THE VALUE OF WHEAT

LIZ tAhOE Or NhhAI
from this country is eight cents per
bushel more than from India, and five
cents more than Russian wheat. It is
higher than that of any non European
country, and yet the quantity furnished
is twice as much as that supplied by
other countries. This is a satisfactory
test of the comparative quality of our
wheat, especially as the prices averaged
five per cent. higher than for a similar
period last year. While India is the
principal competitor of the United States.
her Importance as com petitor is great
ly overrated. The occurrence of STA
mine year" would reduce to zero her ex-
ports. So fixed are the industrial usages
of the people that great enlargement of
the wheat area is an impossibility. There
has been no material increase as a result
of the expectation of the surplus of the
last 10 years. The extension of railroad
mileage has facilitated the shipping of
the surplus of good years, which would
otherwise have been pitted to exc out
subsistence in famine years. It might
not be fair to say that these shipments
have produced no effect. If any, it has
been very small. The exports of 10 years
include nearly the SUM of India's record
of expectation, and would scarcely equal
the crop of an everage year. A 10 per
cent surplus cannot be depended on in a
crop half as large as ours, and cannot
take the place of our surplus, which is
more than half as large as the India
crop. South America has greater pos
sibilities as a competitor, though its
area IN wheat is small as yet. If circum
stances should favor, it could produce a
surplus much larger than that of India.
THE EUROPEAN CROP.
The present indications august 1Oth)
point to more than average Europe an
crop. 1t was late nearly everywhere, per-
maps two weeks on an average at the be-
ginning of June, but in good growing
condition, and its advancement has been
rapid. The Russian and Austrian crons
are especially of Ene promise. The CROP
of Spain is mediocre. In Germany.
France and England reports are general
ly favorable. The Indian crop, harvest
ed few months ago, will be 100000
bushels less than the preceding-sav
239, 100000 bushels. Australia will pro-
duce probably 100000 bushels more
than in 1866, or 337 100000. The pro-
ducts of the world promise to be quite as
much as for each of the preceding har-
vests. close examination cannot be
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
The Bureau Has TO be Cautious.
BROOKLYN Eagle.

''How did you lose your arm, Mr.. Cen
trefre?"
at was shot away at Cold Harbor."
''Lose your leg at the same time?"
"About two hours later; while they
were carrying me back"
And you are totally blind too
Eyes. shell came into the hospital and
exploded right over my cot.''
"Yoa must draw large pension?"
"Well no; don't get any pension at all
Papers are all right as far as they go. but
| haven't been able to prove yet that1f
haden't gone into the army I would not
have died of the cholera, which was
mighty bad in our town in 1861.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
Didn't Dare Tempt Him.
Ssn Francisco Post

Young Heiress to Her Lover-There is
one thing that must be positively under
stood between US before we marry.
Her Ardent Lover-Name it dearest.
No matter what the conditions 1 accept
them in advance.
Young Heiress-Under no circumstan-
ces will [ ever make will in your favor,
and you must never even hint at such a
thing.
Her Ardent Lover-I do not seek you
for your wealth, dearest, but why do you
make such condition?
Young Heiress-Because, my love, you
are doctor, and as you might 20 ssibly
be called on to treat me, do not want to
put temptation in your way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
A Clean Hog.
Practical Farmer

ITdcllcdl rdTBoE
The hog can probably endure as much
hardship as any of our domestlcated
animals, but is this any reason why 1t
should receive abuse, or be subjected to
hardship in any form? We think not
No one of our animals more promptly
responds to kind treatment and clean
surroundings than the hog. 1t is popu-
larly considered filthy. This arises from
the fact that the hog is usually confined
to filthy quarters. Is this the fault of
the hog or of it's owner? Why are its
quarters filthy? They were clean when
the hog was first put into them. Was it
the natural filthiness of the hog above
other animals that made its quarters
filthy, or was it owing to the narrow
limits in which it was confined? What
could it do in such quarters but make
them filthy? True, the hog likes to roll
in the mire in hot weather. So does the
cow like to stand in the running stream,
pond. or mire in hot weather. The hog
will take to clean water if 1t can get it.
Both do this for the same reason-be-
cause of the grateful GOODNESS of the
moisture and the fact that the portions
of the animal organism under water are
free from the annoyance of flies. This
QOgy ike UH0 DONlut, dlSO llh0S W iIO Ill
the cool shade. Give both fair chance
to keep clean, and they will do SO. Con-
fine them in too narrow limits, and they
will get filthy. Given equal chances, and
there is not much difference betw cen the
two. But the custom is to crowd the
hog into narrow quarters and COM pei it
to remain there. Lacking human reason, it
may not be the best thing possible to keep
clean in it's confined home; but in this
respect it will not display much more
lack of reason and hog sense than Its
owner in not providing more ample room
and better natural facilities for keeping
clean. Give the hog clean bed, with
free locomotion, and it will keep it clean.
Give it wild field of clover to roam and
root in, and it will keep itself clean,
healthy and thrifty. Both the hog and
the owner will be benefited by the COM
paratively wide range and the succulent,
heterogeneous food available for the use
of the hog. A little corn meal, and it
will have all it needs, and be as happy
and respectable as well bred hogs should
be. It will put on muscle as well as fat,
and develop healtkful meat for the
food of the genus home. So do not
complain of the filthiness of the hog,
and condemn it to walIow in unclean-
Illness, until you have given it a decent
chance re be decent hog.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
A Lesson For A Bad Man.

New York man-"Oh, yes, I know a
good many of the Wall street men. Slav-
back is particular friend of mine"
Omaha man-"Slayback is about the
worst gambler of of the lot, isn't he?"
''Slayback gambler? Nonsense. He
is the uperlntendant of Sunday school
and says his amens in the loudest kind
of voice. We sit in adjoining pews.''
"Oh!"
eyes, and during the recent Wall
street furry when these bad, wicke men
like Field, were being pounded to a jelly,
Slayback scooped in 100000 without
turning his hands over"